Support Engineer Jobs in Central London

Support Engineer
London > Central London

The median Support Engineer salary in Central London is £42,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 92 133
Rank change year-on-year -15 +41 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 53 112 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.12% 2.96% 2.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 3.11% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 44 74 109
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,250 £40,875 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% +16.79% -17.65%
75th Percentile £55,625 £50,750 £38,750
90th Percentile £68,375 £61,000 £52,500
London median annual salary £42,250 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year +5.63% +5.26% +1.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,287 3,604 4,925
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 95.34% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,619 2,795 4,101
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,625 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
Median % change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Central London

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in Central London.

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Central London

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Central London

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -5 44 £42,250 +1.81% 4
Camden - 4 - -
West End of London +3 2 - - 1
Kensington and Chelsea -1 1 - -
City of Westminster -5 1 - -
Lambeth - 1 - - 1
Support Engineer
London

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (62.26%) Windows
2 30 (56.60%) Active Directory
2 30 (56.60%) Azure
3 26 (49.06%) Social Skills
4 23 (43.40%) Microsoft
5 20 (37.74%) Degree
5 20 (37.74%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (35.85%) Customer Service
7 15 (28.30%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (24.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (22.64%) Windows Server
10 12 (22.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (22.64%) Windows 10
11 11 (20.75%) Confluence
11 11 (20.75%) Finance
11 11 (20.75%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (18.87%) ITIL
12 10 (18.87%) Internet
12 10 (18.87%) SaaS
12 10 (18.87%) 802.1X
13 9 (16.98%) SCCM
13 9 (16.98%) Citrix
14 8 (15.09%) SLA
14 8 (15.09%) Linux
14 8 (15.09%) Entra ID
15 7 (13.21%) Coaching
15 7 (13.21%) Procure-to-Pay
15 7 (13.21%) Broadcast Engineering
15 7 (13.21%) Post-Production

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (20.75%) Confluence
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.89%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.89%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 30 (56.60%) Azure
2 20 (37.74%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (18.87%) SaaS
4 8 (15.09%) Entra ID
5 7 (13.21%) AWS
6 3 (5.66%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.77%) IaaS
7 2 (3.77%) Serverless
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.89%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.30%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (18.87%) Internet
3 7 (13.21%) Broadband
4 5 (9.43%) DHCP
4 5 (9.43%) DNS
4 5 (9.43%) WAN
5 4 (7.55%) LAN
5 4 (7.55%) TCP/IP
5 4 (7.55%) VoIP
6 3 (5.66%) Firewall
6 3 (5.66%) VPN
6 3 (5.66%) Wireless
7 1 (1.89%) ADSL
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.89%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.89%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.89%) MySQL
2 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) JIRA
2 3 (5.66%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
General
1 26 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Legal
4 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Advertising
6 3 (5.66%) Law
7 2 (3.77%) Back Office
7 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.89%) Plotly
3 1 (1.89%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.77%) Equities
2 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.77%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.89%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.89%) iPhone
3 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (62.26%) Windows
2 12 (22.64%) Windows 10
2 12 (22.64%) Windows Server
2 12 (22.64%) Windows Server 2012
3 8 (15.09%) Linux
4 7 (13.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (9.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (5.66%) Mac OS X
6 3 (5.66%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (3.77%) Unix
8 1 (1.89%) Android
8 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) Customer Service
2 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (18.87%) ITIL
4 7 (13.21%) Broadcast Engineering
4 7 (13.21%) Coaching
4 7 (13.21%) Post-Production
4 7 (13.21%) Proactive Maintenance
4 7 (13.21%) Proactive Monitoring
4 7 (13.21%) Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (11.32%) Time Management
6 5 (9.43%) Fintech
7 4 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (7.55%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (7.55%) Task Automation
8 3 (5.66%) Computer Science
8 3 (5.66%) Investment Management
8 3 (5.66%) Practice Management
8 3 (5.66%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
1 7 (13.21%) SQL
2 6 (11.32%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) Bash
3 1 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (37.74%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.66%) A+ Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) CCENT
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) SLA
2 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.77%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (56.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.55%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.66%) Docker
4 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.89%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (16.98%) SCCM
3 3 (5.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (3.77%) Kibana
4 2 (3.77%) logstash
5 1 (1.89%) Plesk
5 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (43.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.98%) Citrix
3 7 (13.21%) Sun
4 4 (7.55%) Cisco
5 3 (5.66%) iManage
5 3 (5.66%) Intapp
5 3 (5.66%) Riverbed
5 3 (5.66%) VMware
6 2 (3.77%) Apple
6 2 (3.77%) ConnectWise
6 2 (3.77%) Google
6 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.89%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.89%) FactSet
7 1 (1.89%) HP
7 1 (1.89%) Mitel
7 1 (1.89%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.89%) Sage
7 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds